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Wednesday Apr 07, 2010

Über Conf is a conference by No Fluff Just Stuff gang and plans to blow the minds of attendees with over 100 in-depth sessions (90 minutes each) from over 40 world class speakers on the Java platform and pragmatic Agile practices targeted at developers, architects, and technical managers.

Get your hands dirty and learn from the industry leaders in an intimate setting where the attendance is capped at 500 and in the beautiful city of Denver.

The talks will start with an introduction of key concepts and then provide a detailed overview of the technology. The talks will be interspersed with multiple demos to leave you feel empowered. There will be NetBeans and Eclipse (hopefully IDEA too) showing the simplicity, ease-of-use, and increased productivity with Java EE 6. There will be multiple demos showing OSGi application development and how OSGi + Java EE leverage the best of both worlds.

Keeping with the spirit of "No Fluff Just Stuff", the material presented will be purely technical :-)

Hear Jay Zimmerman (Über Conf Director) talk about the event. My first engagement with NFJS was Rich Web Experience 2007 and that was a great experience, truly "rich". This is my first speaking engagement with NFJS and looking forward to a long term relationship :-)

On a personal front, I never ran in Denver so looking forward to some nice runs in the mile high city! Any recommendations ?

The conference size was small and this allowed us to have more closer
1-1 interactions with a lot of attendees. We had some real good interactions
with the attendees and looking forward to helping them out.

At the venue, we asked for Internet connectivity for the desktop machines to
be used for demonstration.

For the quoted price ($850 for 2 days) I thought for a moment that
we are getting a "really cheap" dedicated direct satellite connection.
But then I realized it was just the usual broadband wired
connection. Gosh! That was a ridiculous price so we finally used our
laptop for all the demos as wireless connectivity was free, courtesy
Rich Web Experience.

It gives an impression that San Jose Fairmont is not convention-ready yet!

We gave out a new tee-shirt at the conference with the juggling Duke
and attendees were flocking towards it. And if you missed it then
hopefully you can get it at an upcoming conference. Any guesses on
the "balls" ?

We also conducted daily raffles for a
Sun Spot Java Development Kit during the first two days of the conference.
The winners on both the days were extremely thrilled and came back the very next
day and shared their experience. Congratulations!

All the information about the kit can be found at
sunspotworld.com. I recommend
reading the
FAQ that provides information on the types of sensors and other
useful information. The
Users Guide and other
Documentation provide other useful information to get started. If
you were not lucky to win the raffle, you can always buy them
here!

Jay Zimmerman
announced that Rich Web Experience will visit Atlanta in April 2008 and back in
San Jose in September 2008. Thank you for organizing a great conference and
looking forward to our future participation.